by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (1988, 39 pages)

"The notion of a CEO Disaster Survival Kit may at first sound humorous, but the contents of this kit have a very serious purpose. That purpose is to help CEOs minimize their risk that the next disaster striking their community exposes them to: politically, legally, professionally, financially, and personally.

"The kit's contents are not conventional survival tools like matches, fish hooks, and signaling mirrors. Instead. they are specialized tools. The tools include: a CEO disaster checklist: a guide to help conduct your own risk self-assessment; a set of resources, and a guide to equipping your own custom survival kit. The kit is designed as a descriptive model so that you can build your own personalized CEO Disaster Survival Kit' that helps you ask the right questions and make the right calls as you react during the first critical sixty minutes after the next disaster strikes.

"The CEO Disaster Survival Kit was developed for local government CEOs by local government CEOs. These CEOs learned firsthand about the financial, legal, and other risks CEOs run, for each commanded their community's response to a major disaster. From this common experience base these officials developed this kit to help others meet the challenge of responding effectively to their disaster management responsibilities.